Meagre

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  • adj. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
  • adj. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
  • n. An edible fish, Argyrosomus regius.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A large European sciænoid fish (Sciæna umbra or Sciæna aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.
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  • adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent
  • Equivalent
    miserable    hardscrabble    hand-to-mouth    scanty    spare    paltry    measly    bare    exiguous   
    Variant
    maigre   
    Form
    meagreness    meagrely   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    meager    ample    goodly    plentiful    copious    insufficient    substantial    adequate    sparse    fragmentary